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Fungus.
Topic Started: Jan 18 2011, 11:23 PM (1,339 Views)
Holben
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(Note: Often i leave out the word advanced when referring to animal groups. :r )

CL is carrying the main issue there. Ease of GEngineering.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Causality says you don't. <_<

Anyway, talk about the animals, not the relatives!
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Fakeky, even if he is your great-grandson (why the hell would that matter anyway?), he'd know that annelids are much easier to engineer than fungus.

Plus, if your anus ripper is a parasite, it certainly is a bad one. Most parasites try to minimize damage to their host so that they can stay longer and retrieve more nutrients (damage to the host usually leads to death of the host).
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Who would want an anus-ripping fungus for pleasure. Excepting Fakey.
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'~' Hmm... unless the anal bleeding were a way to spread the parasite, in which case causing the host to bleed out is a very good thing.
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Yeah, that's true.
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its still wierd
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"if you want green eat a salad"

Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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I think fungus could become parasites, and etc. but why not have their mycelium become thicker, more flexible, and stronger until the fruiting body might be able to move around via the mycelium.

Also-In my Tuncozoic project, I am think that in East Antarctica, fungus, could make huge fruiting body and that, when a moss or grass annoys them, could emit something that messes up photosynthesis in the moss/grass. Is this possible?
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Canis Lupis
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Fungal diseases are certainly plausible, especially in plants.
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No, I mean, is the anti-plant chemical plausible, if not, should I just use the general parasite thing, or something else?
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You could certainly have them make a substance that destroys or malforms the photosynthetic pigments...

There's parasitic fungi for animals already in existence, I was thinking that maybe there could be an ancestral group that infects the colons of animals and shreds the lining, that would cause internal bleeding and the anal seepage would spread dormant spores throughout the environment.
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Oh yeah, the anti-plant chemical could definitely work Dayshade.

Perhaps colddigger. But I doubt that a fungus like that would evolve into a worm-like thing. It would be easier to just remain a mold.
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It would, but Fakey's great grandson wanted it to become a slug thing for some reason.
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Dayshade
Jan 22 2011, 12:53 PM
I think fungus could become parasites, and etc. but why not have their mycelium become thicker, more flexible, and stronger until the fruiting body might be able to move around via the mycelium.

Also-In my Tuncozoic project, I am think that in East Antarctica, fungus, could make huge fruiting body and that, when a moss or grass annoys them, could emit something that messes up photosynthesis in the moss/grass. Is this possible?
Keep in mind that muscles are essentially bundles of cells that expand and contract in an organized manner. It doesn't seem too difficult to imagine this happening to fungi.
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